The Last Panther in Alabama – or was he?

The Last Panther In Alabama

(Written exactly as told)

from Gibbons Family News Letter

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Way back, sometime around 1902 -1908, the last known panther was killed in Alabama near the Jimmy Gibbons farm. A neighbor was coming up through Jimmy’s corn field when he saw some enormous tracks. He ran to the house and excitedly called for Jimmy to come see what he had found.

They examined the trail through the head high corn and decided that, even though no one in those parts had ever seen one, something that made tracks that large had to be a panther. All the neighbors were warned that danger was afoot in the area. The children and farm animals were kept inside and hunting parties scoured the country side for the panther.

There was no sight of the animal but they found lots of tracks around the various farms. After searching for five days they finally spotted the panther and someone got off a killing shot. The hunters were jubilant. They had protected their families and farms from a dangerous predator. They were so proud they loaded the body into a wagon and drove into Prattville to show off their trophy.

As the wagon rolled past the hotel, a finely dressed man came rushing out. He took one look at the body and started wailing. “You have killed him. He is the only one we had. I will never be able to replace him.” Turns out that a circus was in town and a Great Dane dog had escaped the side show

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i saw one in walker county about 6 years ago. my ex husband told me about them being out in nauvoo ,but i didnt believe him, thinking he was talking about a puma. a few days later i saw one cross the road.

1958-59 – turkey hunting near the confluence (meeting) of the Cahaba River with the Alabama River in Dallas County – a larger than me panther, inky black,, cleared a 15 foot leap from a tree and scampered away, flash, gone that quick. Yes, I could have shot him but I reflected upon the fact that he had a better than good chance to kill me but had passed it up.. this sorta makes us even…

The misleading headline is the problem, not the article. I can see that happening for sure with the way people get terrified and make mistakes but yet there are definitely still panthers in that state as recently as last year.

I read the story and found it quite funny but the fact is the myth of them being gone is that a myth. I heard one killing a neighbors calf when I was 13 a sound that I will never forget . And 3 years ago while Turkey hunting on Big Creek me and my son watched one stalk up on the birds we were calling….. Chills ! Coffee County , Al.

Good story, poor puppy……But yes, we have cougar here in Alabama. Saw one on Straight Mt above Springville. Heard another in Gadsden. Sheila the lion at Noccalula falls park went into heat, she made this deep loud meowing noise. On the second or third night, she started getting a response from down in the canyon. Never got a good look, but I did notice that I was being followed as I made my rounds, and finally saw a pair of eyes with my spotlight.

There are lots and lots of eye witness accounts of “panthers” in Alabama, but no photographic evidence or physical evidence. With everyone having cameras on their phones, someone should get a photo of one with the GPS data embedded. That would be proof. I hear lots of accounts of road kill “panthers” but there’s never any evidence of one for DCNR to pick up. There may be one or two, once captive cougars, that have been turned lose, but that does not mean we have cougars in Alabama. There was a cobra turned loose near Birmingham a few years back, but we don’t have cobras in Alabama. I hope we do have cougars returning to Alabama, but there’s no evidence to support it.

Poop dog but to respond to all those who have commented they are black mountain lions I killed one as a boy in 94 I was 12 it had killed some of our calves in sand valley my mom called the game warden n he took it n sent it off for studying but latter told us what it was

No it couldn’t have been the last one. We heard them down on the river at my mom’s house when I was a child back in three 60s. The cry would make the hair on the back of your neck stand out. It sounded like a woman scream! Then in the mid 80s, two friends, my husband, and I were going the back roads near my parents home and one ran into the road in front of us. My husband and the guy got out of the car to look for it because it went up a big bank as it crossed the road. It ran out of the woods again near our car.

In Clarke County in Coffeeville, Alabama they say you can still hear a Panther scream at night close to the Tombigbee river. i was driving thru Coffeeville one night about 2:00 AM and just East of the town about a couple miles out i saw something black cross the road and jump onto a red clay bank, and i hit the brakes and turned the car lights toward the bank and the big cat paused and turned it’s head and looked at me and it had yellow eyes and it was true it was a Panther. He looked at me a few seconds and then turned and ran off into the woods. This was back in 1987. Folks in Coffeeville always said you could hear Panthers scream at night deep in the woods and they were real. So, it was true! The High School Mascot was a Panther. The school closed a few years ago because the town was small. But the town folks today will tell you stories about those Panthers if you ask…

In alabama it’s kinda like Bigfoot. No one from fish/game will believe it until someone drags a dead one in as proof. I know that I’ve seen a large black cat three times here in Cullman Co. Same area each time so it may be the same animal but who knows.

They are in Bullock Co. also guys. When I lived in Union Springs and worked at the hospital, the newspaper reported some people in town seeing one cross their yard and even took photos of it which were placed in the newspaper. Black Panthers are still in Alabama and I hope no one shoots them. They are too rare to find these days. By the way, the years I speak of were between 2000 and 2012.

Independently seen them crossing hwy 243 and cr 93. I know I have seen them multiple times over the years. Unlike bigfoot/etc … this is a known creature simply rare and out of its range(according to science).

Doubt if you wish. I watch them play in the fields here and one visits my house now and then circling my garage. My border collie was smart enough to lay flat on the porch and not make a peep when it came.

There has never ever been a documented birth of a black mountain lion. Only Jaguars may come in a black color phase and those are extremely rare. Jaguars in the United States of any color are rare. They may be seen if one is lucky in the south west in such places as southern Arizona but good luck if you’re trying to spot one there.

I saw one about a month ago attempting to cross road. It was 5:30 pm so I saw it clearly. I’ve got a game camera picture of a cougar( mountain lion) from about 4 years ago. It was brown and at 7:00 am in morning. They are here.

I have been face-to-face with one as I was coming out of my garage in Fairhope Al. Observed him for several minutes and he feared nothing also have several friends who have seen them crossing Highway 98 from one swamp to the next. They have always been here

I seen a big black cat that looked like a panther, me and my best friend was driving down a dirt road near Brewton Alabama, we was going swimming the banks was high on both sides of us all of a sudden in front of us was a big…. Huge Black cat jumping from one Sid of the bank across the dirt road to the other side of the road. No I didn’t take a picture this was back in the early 90’s, camera phones didn’t exist and I didn’t take a camera every where I went. But one thing is for sure….. That cat could jump. It was so long and big stretched out. I will never forget that. I’m not sure exactly where we was in Brewton but I can see the banks on both sides of me and that beautiful huge black cat stretched out in mid jump and he landed on the other side of the bank. Weather it was a panther I don’t know, but it was not a regular black house cat. God it was so beautiful.

We have them. You just don’t see them. I live on the Al/TN state line. They swim the Elk River all the time. You can glimpse them while canoeing, and I know someone in Fife that has them on his property.

i remember people at school told me they would see black panthers in the woods or walking across their yards. Seemed like wild claims but I guess they are just elusive animals. Older people would tell us it sounds like a woman screaming but louder and more terrifying than a bobcat. I’ve heard bobcats screaming and what I heard was louder. Not sure but could have been

Yes I remember, the strange screams at night. When I went to visit my great aunt in Winfield. I was born there, and I know that people use to tell tall stories. But one early morning we could see what looked liked a panther crossing a field behind the house

When I heard the first scream,I just knew it was a woman,then I heard five more,exactly the same! I was bout to dial the number… but then I thought no way a woman would scream the exact same sounds over and over!

I have seen three in my life in Clarke Co. last one was crossing road at day light about 15 years ago. I stopped to watch him but did not have a camera/phone with me at the time. I believe they travel through this area in early spring.

One ran across the road in front of my car a year or so ago. I was shocked to see such a huge cat and told a neighbor who declared that what I saw was a panther. I live on Weeks Bay just off County Road #1 near Fairhope AL. My neighbor, who has lived here all her life, said they were common.

About 10 years ago, my parents had one jump out of a tree by their garage. Scared them to death! She asked around and other people had seen them too. She was told that the Dept. of Natural resources had released some to control the deer population (which I’m sure they will deny). They live in Lowndes county near Davenport.

The last documented kill of a wild panther in Alabama was shot and killed by my great uncle A.D. Hare, on his farm near Ragland in 1948. I have the photograph and the newspaper article I would post the article if I could.

Black Panthers made a comeback in Alabama in the 1960’s. Many were seen in the larger cities marching in civil rights demonstrations. They could be identified by their tell tail raised fist, black beret and black clothing. There has been a big increase in Black Panther activity nationwide with the new BLM movement

Half the people in the State claim to have seen or heard a panther. Yet no one has ever taken a picture that could be positively identified as a panther, much less a body. There must be hundreds, maybe thousands of game cameras set up all across the State. Out of all the thousands of pics taken by trail cams taken every week not a single picture of a panther has shown up. Where the heck are they?

Saw one about 10:30 one night around 12 years ago outside city limits of Atmore. I was in my room and heard something outside my window. Behold, about 15 yards from my window under the street light, a panther. This was in the country surrounded by pasture and trees, and the closet house to mine is a good 300 yards. Yes, they are here.

Pam Shiflett, I’ve seen fox on my property twice in the past few years. They are very quiet, sneaky, and if you blink they’re gone, blending into the environment. Both times was in my yard near the house. I think they were after my cats.

The edge of the yard at the ditch. It’s been there since my grandpa built the house in ’86 because he paid for it to be placed there, Cherry Smith Truelove. That’s how. The other side of the ditch is an old overgrown county easement. Two sides of house is great aunts pasture, while front of house is the road.

I saw one in the woods behind my old house in creola al off 43 about 14 years ago …..I was getting in my car to leave for work, shocked at what I had seen I called my sister and said no way was this an ” ordinary cat” lol! I then asked ( because I am from Iowa and newly moved here) “Are there Panthers in Al” ? To this day I am convinced that was what I saw and he or she was watching me!!

I’ve seen one in bright daylight too, near Moody, AL at the opposite rim of an abandoned strip mine. No mistaking it for anything else; a big, jet black cat about three feet long and a tail about three feet long. This was in the late ’70’s around ’78 or ’79.

Why is it so hard to believe people have seen these animals? It ain’t like saying “I saw a Bigfoot taking a crap on my lawn but Louise didn’t have film in the camera”. If I tell you a rooster dips snuff you better damn well look under his wing for the snuff can!

I believe the one in Cullman was a mountain lion caught on game camera. But I saw something big and black with a long tail running thru the woods in Mississippi once…no didnt try to get a pic it scared me and I took off inside and didnt go back in the woods lol. The dogs ran down towards it and I saw in the treeline of the woods and it was bigger than the dogs and had a longer tail but it was in movement when I saw whatever it was. Freaked me out lol. But it was before we had good cell phone cameras anyways.

I saw one in North Florence almost the TN line. I didn’t have a camera on me at the time. It was 5 am in the woods. I had been hearing it scream several nights before I finally saw it. Beautiful! Huge. Scarey too. I was in my car. I set staring at it a long time before it left. Butler Creek Road, St. Florian area, North of Florence. There is no mistaking a big black panther. Yes, they are here.

Saw one about 10:30 one night around 12 years ago outside city limits of Atmore. I was in my room and heard something outside my window. Behold, about 15 yards from my window under the street light, a panther. This was in the country surrounded by pasture and trees, and the closet house to mine is a good 300 yards. Yes, they are here.

In 1980, after Hurricane Fredric, an old black panther showed up at the house on Mon Louis Island. He was so old and arthritic. At first he slept under the steps and we couldn’t go out after dark, then he moved into the woods next to the house. He was so pitiful that we fed him until one day he never showed up again.

Heard one last year in my backyard. Thought some lady was hurt in my neighborhood because it sounded like a lady screaming. Looked out and saw nothing. Scared me to death. Then my daughter and boyfriend were sitting on the back porch the next night and they saw it!

I’ve seen a cougar (11 yrs ago) and a black panther (7 yrs ago) in Coosa County. The panther was dead on the side of a bridge outside of Rockford. The cougar was on our property. My dogs took off after it and I saw it jump a 9 ft vertical embankment and run into the woods from our road. It was crazy and scared me to death! I was very worried for my dogs when they ran after it into the woods!

I live in Rockford. One night in September 2015 I heard a very loud scream…. it was cool to hear but kinda scary at the same time. Most of the people I have talked with about it have said it was a panther.

Yep, BLACK. Why is it so hard for you folks to accept that lol? May genetically be a jaguar but they are at least 150 lb with a 3′ long tail and SOLID BLACK. Have seen the tawny brown cats the same size but I have also seen the black ones. Plain, clear, broad daylight, no mistake.

No He was not the last Black Panther in Al. we lived just north of Roanoke, Al about 1948/1949, My mother went to the well to get water just before daylight, a panther was in one of the big Oak trees and he screemed out,two weeks later some hunters came out of the woods and had killed a very huge Black Panther, Just below what now is Chris’s Auto sales.I was about ten years old and it was and awesome sight, we had no camera to make pictures but it is clear in my mind.He was laid out across the hood of an old black car.

I have occasionally seen ” panthers” near my home. I live in North Sumter County on the Tombigbee River. What I have seen is much smaller than a Mountain Lion. I describe it as being almost fox size. Black to dark gray. A smallish narrow head and a long otter like tail. I have most often seen it on a portion of our road adjacent to a large marsh and swamp off of the river. I have seen it at night and during the day. Some of my neighbors I have also seen it.

A fox size black panther? Could it be a very large house cat? My sister’s cat was 30 lbs, so cats can be as big as a large fox. I’ve actually never seen a fox as large as my sister’s cat, now that I think about it. I see them all the time near my house… foxes, that is.

No I seen one at 2 o’clock in Lauderdale mtg area crossed the gravel rd 20 yards in front of me about six years ago there’s at least one in Alabama are was black and covered half the road in broad daylight I was going bow hunting

In 1978 my cousin and I were at a strippit around a lake called “Brilliant lake” in Marion County, Alabama, he or she was on side wall when we heard something over us, and sure enough there it stood ten feet over us just looking at us we whistled at it for some kid reason and it left.

I know this is going to stir some people up but, biologicallay a Puma, Panther, Mountain Lion can not be black. The only big cat in North America that can have that color is a jaguar and their maximum range is Texas. Now I don’t doubt people see lions from time to time in Alabama, particularly as the range of the Florida Panther is supposedly expanding and Alabama has an over abundance of Deer. Just saying…….

So there are no large black cats (jaguar or whatever you biologically ID a 150 lb jet black cat with a 3’+ long tail,) in Alabama? So you are calling all the people here that have seen them liars? Lol I say YOU and the biological dimwits are full of chit! The same folks also deny there are black bears, alligators, and ugly yankee women in the upper half of that state…..

Justin Joe please search the internet for a picture of a black panther taken anywhere in the world and post it here. You won’t find one because they don’t exist. Although some people could be seeing a jaguarundi because they can have a dark but not black coat.

Ya don’t say!!!!! It’s called good deer Management. Alabama’s deer population has been dwindling away for the last 20 years. Our quality of Bucks is also hurting. I saw over 200 rack Bucks that would score 150 or better in PA in 3 days most were seen after dark we were bow hunting saw over 50 in my stand I just never got close enough for a shot. I haven’t seen 200 or even 20. 150+ class BUCKS in a 3 day period or even over a whole season in Bama!

Albert Corley of Odenville was forced to kill a Black Panther in 1981 due to its killing of livestock. The kill was investigated and documented by the then game warden in St. Clair County. It is what it is…….

Jason Jackson Reading comprehension COULD be your friend if given a chance! JET BLACK . Not brown, not tan, not “dark” colored, not sorta black, JET BLACK. As ALREADY STATED, who knows what the gene make up is of these large JET BLACK cats the size of a mountain lion is but that does not mean they don’t exist. Just because no egg head has a picture on google does not mean they don’t exist. Call them a jaguar or whatever you want, but whatever the species is, IT DOES EXIST, THEY ARE IN THE SOUTHEAST, AND THEY ARE JET BLACK!

Saw one twice in St Clair county. Once in 2006 and again in 2008 within 2 miles of each other. Both daytime. Once at daylight, leaped across road in front of our car and never touched the ground till it got to other side (little over a one lane road) 2nd time topped a hill in the woods it apparently had been at the edge of the river.

I saw something about 6 years ago early one morning close to Akins Furniture store. It was standing on the opposite side of the road. It was still dark outside but I know that it wasn’t a dog. I’m not saying that it was a panther but it was jet black with a long tail, the eyes weren’t that of a dog.

Saw one in Coffee County near Antioch Curve in 1998. My Brother was with me , and he saw it as well. Not only that a fellow friend in the area,saw it once as well , during that same time.It’s tail was as long as it’s body. Also heard one when I was around 7 years old , that was around 1987. It woke me and my Grandma up out of a dead sleep. Sounded like a woman screaming , it was unforgettable.

My friend, Albert Corley of Odenville, Al was forced to kill a Black Panther in 1981 due to its killing of livestock. The kill was investigated and documented by the then game warden in St. Clair County. The remains were taken to a county authorized veterinarian and sent to the appropriate state agency and was verified as a wild panther. I saw it. It was black. It is what it is.

Furthermore I have seen two Cougars/Mountain Lions in Alabama in the past thirty years. One in Pinson (circa 1987) and one in Remlap (2011). In the late seventies I had three different bears that ate from my compost heap and garden for many years. The state said “impossible”, or they were migrating from Georgia or Florida. I made the point I first saw them in 1979 (therefore they were there before I moved in) and it was now 1985 so I asked were their “rooms” being comped or what since they were just “visitors”? The game warden finally came out and documented my claim. Bears were still there when I moved in 1997. End of story. It is what it is…….

My dad was raised in the Manchester-Falls city area of Walker county and he heard and saw panthers in that area and the Bankhead forrest during the 1930’s and 1940’s, and yes even black bears were reported at that time to be in those dark deep forests.

In Dekalb Co. Ala. Around puddin’ ridge and the old road going up Sand Mt , late one night around 1968 or 70 … My dad’s uncles were hunting and we ran up on them (I was a small kid) I remember uncle Jesse coming to the truck window and talking to Daddy… One of the things he said was “em dogs got on that panthers trail again, they took off”. That meant coon hunting was over cause the dogs was running that panther. It was seen many times around Deerhead Cove and our family talked about it often.

There was a mama and her baby that scared the you know what out of my kids once while they were playing in our front yard around dusk one evening. We lived on a dirt road and our place was surrounded by woods. Never saw her our her baby again.

My dad used to cross the woods out east of Falkville Al. on foot at dusk dark and heard them and took out running to the house. That was around 1950 . The woods are still there and I’m sure panthers are still there as well… this was mountain area..

I remember my uncles telling stories of a panther they heard while coon hunting in Franklin Alabama back in 1974-75 ish , they said it sounded like a baby screaming. I don’t think they ever actually seen it and probably didn’t hang around to do so.

Mom swore for years she heard one yearly during the summer months back in west mobile co, mid ’60s, said it sounded like a woman screaming, I was just a kid, 7ish, said it must have came thru the area in summers.

Just read the article; very interesting with a surprising ending!!!! For those who haven’t read it, please….go back and do that!!!! You’ll have to find out the surprise for yourselves!!!! Comments comments everywhere, but so few actually read!!!!….LOL!!!!

That being said, I have seen panthers (long tail cats as some call em, in the area of the Talladega (Okmulgee div) in Perry County on more than one occasion when coming home from work in the very early morning hours.

I was in Salem Cemetery in Attala Cty., Ms around 1998 at night with the moon lighting up the cemetery. I started hearing a sound like a cat in a fight and also heard dogs barking as they were chasing the animal. I started hearing the animals getting closer, as the rustling was also getting louder. I never saw anything but, I would say it was a panther.

The last “known”…. key word. Fact is they still exist in Alabama though in very small numbers. My wife, her siblings and her mom will tell you they had one that would wander onto their porch sometimes after dark when they were kids. You could hear the heavy footsteps of the large cat coming up the steps on the porch… Said it would make a loud scream that sounded like a woman screaming. My grandmother on my mom’s side told similar stories of the elusive black panther. She grew up in the Clanton area.

A police officer in Parrish, AL saw a very large black cat with a long tail on Hay Valley road back around 206-07, He stated to me that it was not a house cat. My neighbor had a dog killed by a large cat in that area around that year also, and one came up behind my garage and let out a scream, I never saw it but went into the woods and could hear it running through the underbrush and scream several times.

Despite their extirpation from the east, there are hundreds of reports each year to state and federal wildlife agencies of cougar and black panther sightings. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that most sightings turn out to be bobcats, but also bears, deer, domestic cats, or dogs.

Jonathan Hayes………”As a biologist, I need some kind of confirmed physical evidence before I can reasonably believe they are here,” Thomas Harms, biologist and the state’s large animal coordinator based in the Mobile area, told AL.com.” Like I said……….not one ounce of proof has been provided.

There has never been a confirmed or documented case of a melanistic mountain lion in the United States. … There have only 12 reported sightings across all of North America and because these cats are so much smaller, they would look more like a house cat than a black panther. https://www.outdooralabama.com/node/1320

JP Woodyard I seen one in downtown Kali Oka in 2011. He was down by crybaby bridge. Some say the Hook man from the old Davis mansion used to keep one for a pet but I would probably have to call Bs on that. Nobody round here believed me though it was just as you said.

Rebecca P. Smith how much wilderness experience do you have? I’ve spent much time in areas far beyond human habitation. There is more heavy forest in Alabama now than there was in the 1500’s. Multiple species never identified before are found here every year. Before you chuckle behind hand look yourself in the quite and lone places you will see unbelievably strange and wonderful things

Jimmy Terry, There has never been a confirmed or documented case of a melanistic mountain lion in the United States. … There have only 12 reported sightings across all of North America and because these cats are so much smaller, they would look more like a house cat than a black panther.https://www.outdooralabama.com/node/1320

Carla Moore-Williams in our continent complex of North and South America the black phase jaguar is still seen often as close as Texas. This distance is negligible to a creature whom home territory can contain 500 square miles. Relying on sites like outdoor alabama is convienent but do not guarantee all available data. I believe the evidence I’ve myself experienced above scientists theory

Jimmy Terry, I do not rely solely on one source, but I do use sources and not analytic stories. Being seen in central and southern America doesn’t have anything too do with being seen a thousand miles away in Alabama. Today, the jaguar is found in South and Central America, from Mexico to northern Argentina. The species’ range formerly spread over the US border into the southern states of America, but had become wiped out there by the 1940s due to hunting. There are no jaguars or black panthers in the United States.

In big cats, black panthers are actually jaguars or leopards. If you look closely enough, or have enough bright light, you can see spots amongst the dark fur. There has never been a confirmed or documented case of a melanistic mountain lion in the United States.

I saw a mtn lion in my back yard back in Oct and I have the game camera pic to prove it. Also, I saw a black bear on the same day with a pic as well. I have seen a total of two mtn lions at one time. They have been around my house for a long time.

I have seen several while hunting in Lower Peachtree , they are easily identified and are definitely not dogs or house cats . Smaller than panthers at the zoo, but profile is the same . Two I’ve seen were within 50 yards.

My Grandmother saw a black panther, as she called it, on Bull Mountain in northern Marion County many years ago. She was a quiet lady and definitely not one for tall tales. She locked eyes on it and backed out of its site before turning around.

Seen one at night near DeSoto Caverns north of Childersburg. I was sitting with friends on the porch when it walked under a street light. Their German Shepherd came to the porch whining like a puppy and hid behind a wood box.

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